The process of developing a detailed description of the project and product is known as:
The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:
Which of the following includes how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported?
You are assigned to implement the project control plan. What should you do to ensure the plan is effective and current?
Progressively elaborating high-level information into detailed plans is performed by the:
Which type of analysis is used as a general management technique within the Plan Procurements process?
The person assigned by the performing organization to be responsible for achieving the project objectives is the:
Which tool or technique of Plan Quality involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?
Which of the following documents allows the project manager to assess risks that may require near term action?
Which process is conducted from project inception through completion and is ultimately the responsibility of the project manager?
Which of the following is an example of a technique used in quantitative risk analysis?
Which Control Scope input is compared to actual results to determine if corrective action is required for the project?
The creation of an internet site to engage stakeholders on a project is an example of which type of communication?
Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?
When painting a bedroom, preparing the walls can be done while the paint is being chosen. This is an example of a:
Which Perform Quality Control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
A project manager is appointed full-time to a project and is given full-time administrative staff and full-time project team members. This situation describes which type of organizational structure?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
How many possible paths are identified for this project?
During which process would you obtain stakeholders’ formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Change requests are processed for review and disposition according to which process?
The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?
A project team member agrees to change a project deliverable after a conversation with an external stakeholder. It is later discovered that the change has had an adverse effect on another deliverable. This could have been avoided if the project team had implemented:
One of the fundamental tenets of modern quality management states that quality is:
An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:
Which type of estimating can produce higher levels of accuracy, depending upon the sophistication and underlying data built into the model?
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedulevariance (SV) for Task 8?
Within project integration management, the statement of work (SOW) references which aspects of the project?
A collection of projects managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives is referred to as a:
Procurement audits, negotiated settlements, and a records management system are tools and techniques used in which Procurement Management process?
Which of the following investigates the likelihood that each specific risk will occur?
Which of the following is an estimating technique that uses the values of parameters from previous similar projects for estimating the same parameter or measure for a current project?
At the completion of a project, a report is prepared that details the outcome of the research conducted on a global trend during the project. Which item did this project create?
Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?
A project in which the scope, time, and cost of delivery are determined as early as possible is following a life cycle that is:
A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete and was to be finished today. As of today, the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed. What is the cost variance?
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Duration?
The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:
A special type of bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables is called a:
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
Which of the following involves making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?
Which activity involves ensuring that the composition of a projects configuration items is correct?
The integrative nature of project management requires which Process Group to interact with the other Process Groups?
A full-time project manager with low to moderate authority and part-time administrative staff is working in an organizational structure with which type of matrix?
Change requests are an output from which Project Integration Management process?
Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
Configuration identification, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification and audit are all activities in which process?
Which type of dependency used in the Sequence Activities process is sometimes referred to as preferred logic, preferential logic, or soft logic?
What quality control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
Analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of a project is known as:
Which standard has interrelationships to other project management disciplines such as program management and portfolio management?
A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:
The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is called risk:
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team process?
Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes, and procedures?
The three types of estimates that PERT uses to define an approximate range for an activity’s cost are:
A change log for communications can be used to communicate to the appropriate stakeholders that there are changes:
Which tool or technique is effective in a project in which the deliverable is not a service or result?
A project manager at a publishing company decides to initiate the editing phase of the project as soon as each chapter is written. Which type of Sequence Activities tool and technique is involved, considering that there was a start-to-start relationship with a 15-day delay?
The project manager for XYZ stationers is sequencing the activities for the project to set up a new office. It is known from knowledge of best practices that it is better to wait for the painters to finish painting the walls before the new floors are installed. This is an example of which of the following types of dependency?
Which cost estimate technique includes contingencies to account for cost uncertainty?
Which of the following types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?
The Create WBS process is in which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Which quality management and control tool is useful in visualizing parent-to-child relationships in any decomposition hierarchy that uses a systematic set of rules that define a nesting relationship?
The planned work contained in the lowest level of work breakdown structure (WBS) components is known as:
The item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
A project team attempts to produce a deliverable and finds that they have neither the expertise nor the time to complete the deliverable in a timely manner. This issue could have been avoided if they had created and followed a:
Payback period, return on investment, internal rate of return, discounted cash flow, and net present value are all examples of:
The procurement process that documents agreements and related documentation for future reference is known as:
The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables is known as:
Which type of contract is most commonly used by buying organizations because the price for goods is set at the outset and is not subject to change unless the scope of work changes?
Which of the following is a measure of the value of work completed compared to the actual cost or progress made on the project?
Which tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?
Which of the following is a conflict resolution technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?
What type of planning is used where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while work in the future is planned at a higher level?
Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?